CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The lacrosse teams from Virginia and Maryland did one better than the basketball teams from Syracuse and Connecticut.
Brian Carroll's goal a minute into the seventh overtime Saturday night lifted the top-ranked Cavaliers to a 10-9 victory over the Terrapins in the longest Division I men's lacrosse game in NCAA history.
It won't likely make the highlights like the Orange's dramatic six-overtime win over UConn in the Big East tournament a few weeks ago, but the win capped a rally from three goals down and was Virginia's 11th straight to open the season.
Carroll said he had a feeling the two teams were making history, but it never crossed the mind of Cavaliers coach Dom Starsia.
"I'm probably too tired to consider the historical significance of all of this," he said. "It felt like it was a struggle offensively all day and I wasn't sure that we were going to be able to manufacture the goal we needed to win."
Maryland (6-3) appeared to win the game 9 seconds into the first overtime on a goal by Grant Catalino, but an inadvertent whistle by the officials negated it.
The Terrapins outshot Virginia 14-6 in overtime, but Virginia goalie Adam Ghitelman kept them from scoring. He finished with a career-high 22 saves.
